Still the Shining City On the Hill

Still the Shining City On the Hill
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-who-do-we-think-we-are.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0&referrer=

""From Katrina to Fallujah, we're less the Shining City Upon a Hill than the House of Broken Toys.

For the first time perhaps, hope is not as much a characteristic of American feelings.

Are we winners who have been through a rough patch? Or losers who have soured our sturdy and spiritual DNA with too much food, too much greed, too much narcissism, too many lies, too many spies, too many fat-cat bonuses, too many cat videos on the evening news, too many Buzzfeed listicles like "33 Photos Of Corgi Butts," and too much mindless and malevolent online chatter?""

We are still the best of the best.  The progressives have had the wheel and have run us into the ditch. "It is too hard", they say, "No one could do it". Why is that, 'Smartest people on earth'?

As Winston Churchill said, " Americans always get it right, after they try every other way.".  Letting the progressives be in charge, was one of those 'other ways'.